276919 - Contacts sidebar 0.5 could not be installed because it is not compatible with Firefox.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Gary Beach]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

Selected "Tools" item from Thunderbird menu bar.  Selected "Extensions" from
drop-down menu. Selected "Get More Extensions" item.  Selected "Contacts
Sidebar" from available Thunderbird 1.0 extensions.  Selected "Install Now" and
received error box with information listed in "Summary" above.

Ultimately had to download via IE, save locally, and install from my desktop.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Selected "Tools" item from Thunderbird menu bar.
2.Selected "Extensions" from drop-down menu.
3.Selected "Get More Extensions" item.
4.Selected "Contacts Sidebar" from available Thunderbird 1.0 extensions.
5.Selected "Install Now"

Actual Results:  
Received an error with the following text: Contacts sidebar 0.5 could not be
installed because it is not compatible with Firefox. 

Expected Results:  
I expected the extension to be installed within Thunderbird via Firefox.

No themes were in use, action was tried immediately after the migration from
Outlook Express to Thunderbird 1.0

Comment 1

[Gary Beach]

From my perspective this is more embarassing that anything else - having to use
IE to download extensions from Mozilla.

Comment 2

[Doug Wright]

https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=thunderbird&version=1.0&os=Linux&id=70
 has install instructions - "save link as...", etc.

Resolving invalid